The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

We just have to live each new day as if it’s a precious gift. When I wake up in the morning I like to think that this day will be better than any day I’ve ever lived.

The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:eat less of it, for it is full of fire.Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

I've heard the word 'fear'. I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me.

The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part.

Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.